WGU D488 OBJECTIVE ASSESSMENT - CYBERSECURITY
ARCHITECTURE AND ENGINEERING | OA EXAM TEST
BANK | D488 TEST BANK | EXAM QUESTIONS WITH
CORRECT ANSWERS | UPDATED 2026/2027 | GUARANTEED
PASS.
A financial institution is required to comply with the Payment Card
Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS), which sets requirements for
the protection of payment card data. The institution uses various
software programs and utilities to manage payment card data, and it is
essential to ensure that only authorized programs and utilities are
allowed on the institution's systems.
Which security control will meet the needs of the institution?
Application allowlisting
What is SIEM?
Security information and event management. SIEM gives security
teams a central place to collect, aggregate, and analyze volumes of
data across an enterprise, effectively streamlining security
workflows.
It also delivers operational capabilities such as compliance
reporting, incident management, and dashboards that prioritize
threat activity.
,A regional hospital with budget constraints stores critical patient
information and medical records on local servers.
Which protocol will ensure that the company can respond to an
unexpected event by ensuring that its critical systems are available and
responsive with minimal downtime and data loss?
Disaster recovery (DR) protocol, to ensure that recovery procedures
are executed in a consistent and efficient manner
An e-commerce company is developing a disaster recovery plan and
wants to determine how long its systems or applications can be down
before causing significant harm to the business.
What is the term used to describe this metric?
Maximum tolerable downtime (MTD)
Which solution will streamline the incident response process?
Security orchestration, automation, and response (SOAR)
,What is SOAR?
SOAR—for security orchestration, automation and response—is a
software solution that enables security teams to integrate and
coordinate separate security tools, automate repetitive tasks and
streamline incident and threat response workflows.
Which type of disaster recovery site will ensure that the hospital can
quickly resume operations in case of a disaster?
A warm site that is partially equipped with the necessary hardware
and software to be operational in a short period of time
A manufacturing company is evaluating continuity options for its critical
systems and data.
A company's website is a critical component of their business operations.
However, due to an unexpected disaster, their website is experiencing a
high volume of traffic, which is negatively affecting its performance. As
part of their disaster recovery plan, the company is looking for a solution
that can improve website speed and performance.
Which solution will meet the needs of the company?
, Content delivery network (CDN)
A company is developing its disaster recovery plan and wants to ensure
the security of its data, even in the event of a major disaster. The IT team
is considering using a tool that provides visibility into cloud applications
and enforces data security policies.
Which tool will meet the needs of the company?
Cloud access security broker (CASB
The chief technology officer for a small publishing company has been
tasked with improving the company's security posture. As part of a
network upgrade, the company has decided to implement intrusion
detection, spam filtering, content filtering, and antivirus controls. The
project needs to be completed using the least amount of infrastructure
while meeting all requirements.
Which solution fulfills these requirements?
Deploying a unified threat management (UTM) appliance
ARCHITECTURE AND ENGINEERING | OA EXAM TEST
BANK | D488 TEST BANK | EXAM QUESTIONS WITH
CORRECT ANSWERS | UPDATED 2026/2027 | GUARANTEED
PASS.
A financial institution is required to comply with the Payment Card
Industry Data Security Standard (PCI DSS), which sets requirements for
the protection of payment card data. The institution uses various
software programs and utilities to manage payment card data, and it is
essential to ensure that only authorized programs and utilities are
allowed on the institution's systems.
Which security control will meet the needs of the institution?
Application allowlisting
What is SIEM?
Security information and event management. SIEM gives security
teams a central place to collect, aggregate, and analyze volumes of
data across an enterprise, effectively streamlining security
workflows.
It also delivers operational capabilities such as compliance
reporting, incident management, and dashboards that prioritize
threat activity.
,A regional hospital with budget constraints stores critical patient
information and medical records on local servers.
Which protocol will ensure that the company can respond to an
unexpected event by ensuring that its critical systems are available and
responsive with minimal downtime and data loss?
Disaster recovery (DR) protocol, to ensure that recovery procedures
are executed in a consistent and efficient manner
An e-commerce company is developing a disaster recovery plan and
wants to determine how long its systems or applications can be down
before causing significant harm to the business.
What is the term used to describe this metric?
Maximum tolerable downtime (MTD)
Which solution will streamline the incident response process?
Security orchestration, automation, and response (SOAR)
,What is SOAR?
SOAR—for security orchestration, automation and response—is a
software solution that enables security teams to integrate and
coordinate separate security tools, automate repetitive tasks and
streamline incident and threat response workflows.
Which type of disaster recovery site will ensure that the hospital can
quickly resume operations in case of a disaster?
A warm site that is partially equipped with the necessary hardware
and software to be operational in a short period of time
A manufacturing company is evaluating continuity options for its critical
systems and data.
A company's website is a critical component of their business operations.
However, due to an unexpected disaster, their website is experiencing a
high volume of traffic, which is negatively affecting its performance. As
part of their disaster recovery plan, the company is looking for a solution
that can improve website speed and performance.
Which solution will meet the needs of the company?
, Content delivery network (CDN)
A company is developing its disaster recovery plan and wants to ensure
the security of its data, even in the event of a major disaster. The IT team
is considering using a tool that provides visibility into cloud applications
and enforces data security policies.
Which tool will meet the needs of the company?
Cloud access security broker (CASB
The chief technology officer for a small publishing company has been
tasked with improving the company's security posture. As part of a
network upgrade, the company has decided to implement intrusion
detection, spam filtering, content filtering, and antivirus controls. The
project needs to be completed using the least amount of infrastructure
while meeting all requirements.
Which solution fulfills these requirements?
Deploying a unified threat management (UTM) appliance
